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The Strange, Charles Hartman

English Faculty Publications

Presents the poem "The Strange," by Charles O. Hartman. First Line: fungus raised by the night's rain; Last Line: thread cubic miles of humus.

Marooned!, Jeff Rasley

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article for Chicago Magazine about the terrible University of Chicago football team in the mid-1970s.

Fall 2006, Valparaiso University

The Lighter, 1958-2019

No abstract provided.

Conception: A Personal History, Kathryn Rhett

English Faculty Publications

November 19 is Remembrance Day in Gettysburg, the day that Lincoln dedicated part of the battlefield as a cemetery for the Civil War dead in 1863. That year in July the dead lay on the battlefield, on the farmers’ fields planted with crops and in the summer-green woods where they had taken positions behind boulders and tree trunks. Some lay covered with dirt, and others just lay bare to the weather. When land for a cemetery was set aside, the townspeople moved the dead to proper graves.

As a citizen of Gettysburg more than a century later, I carry no …

Reading At Risk, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

Reading may be in jeopardy as we advance along the information superhighway. Is literacy to be technology's first roadkill?

¡Escriba! ¡Write! Volume 4, June 2006, Hostos Community College Library

¡Escriba!

No abstract provided.

Ua32/4/1 Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp, Wku Gender & Women's Studies

WKU Archives Records

Booklet reviewing events at Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp.

Seeking An Aesthetics Of Metafiction, Erin J. Vachon

Senior Honors Projects

According the Oxford English Dictionary, metafiction is ‘fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions…and narrative techniques.’ In short, metafiction announces itself as a textual artifact and examines the very nature of fiction. Metafiction has been defined as such, but I seek the effect of the text upon the act of reading and the reader: into what space is the reader initiated when the boundaries between author-text-reader become dismantled or confused? What does the act of reading become, beyond a mere analytic exercise? I am searching …

The Lyric Self: Artifice And Authenticity In Recent American Poetry, Alan Soldofsky

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

No abstract provided.

Foucault And The Hupomnemata: Self Writing As An Art Of Life, Matthias Swonger

Senior Honors Projects

Michel Foucault tells us about a form of self writing called the hupomnemata in an essay titled Self Writing in his book Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. In its simplest definition, the hupomnemata is a notebook, or journal of sorts for the Ancient Greeks. However, unlike the intimate, confessional journals later found in Christian literature, the hupomnemata does not intend “to pursue the unspeakable, nor to reveal the hidden, nor to say the unsaid, but on the contrary to capture the already said, to collect what one has managed to hear or read, and for a purpose that is nothing less …

New Tricks (2006), John Nelson

New Tricks

No abstract provided.

Spring 2006, Valparaiso University

The Lighter, 1958-2019

No abstract provided.

In Transit, Kathryn Rhett

English Faculty Publications

There is the birthplace and there is the deathplace. We are in the deathplace. The deathplace is Bad Aibling, in southern Germany, just north of the Austrian border. To get here, we have driven through the Tyrol, the Italian-Austrian-German alpine region in which gingerbread houses stack up on the green slopes of valleys.

Bad Aibling sounds fitting for a deathplace, a bad place, though in fact “bad” means “bath.” As we drive on a two-lane road, we see cars parked in bunches on the grassy shoulder, and it seems people might be bathing, dipping their feet in the country creeks …

Interpreting Nature In Australia Through Poetry: A Personal Anthology Written Within The Erosion Caldera Of Northern New South, Kyla Allon

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

My Independent Study Project (ISP) involved traveling within the erosion caldera of northern New South Wales, mainly WWOOFing (Willing Workers on Organic Farms) and writing environmental poetry about the places where I lived and worked. I began by researching past Australian environmental poets so that I could have a strong basic understanding before commencing my own writing. I lived in four different locations within the erosion caldera and strove to form a strong sense of place that is reflected in my poetry. Ultimately, I produced an anthology of poems that capture my responses to the natural environments that I experienced. …

Bones N' Things (A Short Book Of Poetry), Tristan D. Hanson

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Bones N' Things (a short book of poetry), by Tristan D. Hanson, Western Washington University Honors Project.

Mating Call, Andrew Cohen

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mating Call is a memoir set in the Pacific Northwest during the 1990s, in what Spin Magazine calls "Seattle's Golden Age." The story begins with my arrival in the West and a self-inflicted broken heart, a relationship I had severed due to "missing pieces." The quest is to find these pieces, and throughout the search the memoir analyzes love and relationships for Generation X. The quest takes seven years, during which the narrative explores Seattle's breweries and bedrooms, and the Northwest's rainforests and volcanoes, all the while investigating interpersonal chemistry, sex, and friendship. For all the searching, the missing pieces …

Florida Pure, Lauren A. Doyle

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

FLORIDA PURE is a satiric novel set in the orange juice industry of contemporary Florida that begins when the deaths of four migrant workers lead to the demise of the orange juice company, Florida Pure. The novel follows three plot lines that result from this demise. The company's fallen president has to cope with the loss of the company as well as the more recent loss of his wife, who has left him for the governor of Florida. A former Florida Pure trucker purchases an orange grove to make juice "honestly." And three brothers from Brazil seek to destroy the …

Broken Heroes, Michael Creeden

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

BROKEN HEROES is a mystery novel set in the modem day Southern California rock music scene. The protagonist is Declan St. James, 35, an alcoholic ex-musician and frustrated music journalist who, with friend and former bandmate, Stevie Richards, investigates the mysterious death of mentor Art Schulman. The search ultimately leads them to PowerTrash, a cult favorite band which, years earlier, suffered a mysterious death of its own. The novel is told in Declan's first-person voice looking back on these events. Like A.S. Byatt's Possession, the book uses the study of artists and their work to connect past and present …

A Nonfiction Fictitious Remembrance Of Wendy Wasserstein, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a short story.

Petting Zoo, Charles Hartman

English Faculty Publications

Presents the poem "Petting Zoo," by Charles O. Hartman. First Line: Spring: the edges and middles; Last Line: think of it, mammals with wheels.

The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976-2006, Hans Ostrom

All Faculty Scholarship

This full length collection includes poems by Hans Ostrom, American poet (born 1954). It includes a forward by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Karl Shapiro. Many of the poems were previously published in literary magazines, literary sections of newspapers, and/or anthologies. Ostrom earned a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California. He is a member of the PEN/America organization.

Insert: Your First Timpani, Susan Holbrook

Creative Writing Publications

No abstract provided.

Book Review: One Foot In Heaven By David Waltner-Toews, Melanie Springer Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "One Foot in Heaven, David Waltner-Toews's first published collection of fiction, is ostensibly a cycle of fourteen stories, tracing the life of Prom, a Ukrainian immigrant who moves to Alberta; Prom's children and their friends; and Prom's neighbors and acquaintances. Yet One Foot in Heaven is far more than a compilation of finely crafted narratives. As with Waltner-Toews's other published work—both his half-dozen poetry collections and his nonfiction work on the environment—One Foot in Heaven reflects a keen sense of the relationship between the material and the spiritual. Just as Waltner-Toews's 1992 book on food poisoning (Food, Sex, and …

Crafting Community (Chapter Eight Of The Contented Soul: The Art Of Savoring Life), Lisa Graham Mcminn

Faculty Publications - Department of World Languages, Sociology & Cultural Studies

Excerpt: "Norm Ewert and Sharon Coolidge live simply in an affluent suburb. They are Wheaton College professors committed to caring for the poor around the world. Before she and Norm married, Sharon had purchased a small home a couple blocks from campus. After they married, they expanded and remodeled the 1850s home, using recycled materials (leaded windows from a school, French doors from a church, a carved staircase salvaged from a house fire) and adding a reservoir to capture and reuse rainwater, a solarium with well-placed windows for passive heat, and thick walls for insulation. As Mennonites they live simply …

My Right Breast And Other Poems, Carmela Ferradans

Scholarship

A collection of original poetry about the author's experience with cancer.

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 14 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 15 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.

John Mcgahern And The Commemoration Of Traditional Rural Ireland, Eamon Maher

Articles

No abstract provided.

Recovering The Conversation: A Response To "Responding To Student Writing" Via "Across The Drafts", Carol Rutz

Faculty Work

No abstract provided.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.